STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR ROLLING OUT SAGARA ACROSS THE COUNTRY

SOP-SAGARA

Web cum Mobile application for strengthening the security of fishermen while going for fishing operation along the Indian Coastal National Informatics CentreDepartment of Information Technology Ministry of Electronics& Information TechnologyGovernment of India 8/7/2018

ABOUT

Sagara, is Web cum Mobile Application developed for Fisherman Safety & Security by

National Informatics Centre, Kerala in close coordination with State Fisheries Dept. This is

focused on monitoring the fishing vessels and registering the crew going for fishing operation.

This primarily acts as a form of communication between fishermen and authorized government

agencies, to be informed about the fishermen and the vessels on board.

About SAGARA mobile application

Sagara Android based application is to help the Fisheries Department to keep an up-to-date entry and exit of vessels and fishermen venturing in to the sea. The Mobile App supports multiple languages, which allows the vessel owner / representative to select their preferred language and register the entry and exit details of the vessels and passengers.It is also designed to receive notifications and messages about critical warnings, alerts and information in local language.

About SAGARA web application

Facilitating the fisheries department officials to know the number of vessels on boarded, returned and number of crew accompanied as on date. User credentials are provided to the Fisheries officials to know the live status of on boarded vessels, crew and number of vessels in the sea.

The backbone of the SAGARA application is ReALCRaft

About ReALCraft

Sagara Mobile App. Works based on the ReALCRaft Data. ReALCraft is a Web application for vessel registration and Fishing license and is being Implemented in all the 9 Marine States a and 4 UT’s across the country. Around 2.85 lakh vessels have already been registered across the Country.

How it works

Benefits

Ensure security of the fishermen and security of the nation

Increase accountability in the crews and vessel movements

Availability of on boarded, off boarded vessel in the dash board

Features

Populate real time data of registered fishing vessels movements and crew

accompanying in the following way

Total no. of vessels on travel

Today, yesterday and the current month - no. of vessels on boarded, returned and the

crew details

populate the critical warning, alert and Information

Facilitates Govt. officials to monitor the movement of vessels and crews

Populate real time data of critical warning, alert and information by integrating with

Govt authorized agencies like IMD, ISRO etc

Key Steps Pre-requisites for SAGARA Rollout:

a. UPDATE ReALCRaft application

• The Sagara mobile App. operators mobile number and boat owners data has to be

updated in ReALCRaft application.

Boat owners can approach Fisheries Department to update the same.

b. How to Start ?

Download application from google play store free of cost

How to Change ?

1

A screen requesting to select your preferred

language will be displayed during your first visit.

This screen will not be repeated after a successful

login. For further changes in the language, the

settings option can be used.

Application Language

2

A welcome screen will be displayed after thesuccessful Login.

Application Welcome

Mobile Based Application Login3LOGIN

For successful Login, the Boat owner or his

representative has to provide the Mobile No.

registered in ReALCraft Appl.

4

After submission, the registered user will get an

OTP in the registered Mobile. User has to provide

this OTP and proceed to access the Dashboard

OTPLOGIN

5

After successful login, user can view his Dashboard.Following features are available in the Dashboard

Facility to see Notifications and News Updates Settings to see profile, logout and to change language Details about previous travel View vessels under his Ownership and their Voyage status Mark new travel (ENTRY) Mark Return (EXIT)

DashboardAPPLICATION

6

The Third Tab in the Dashboard is for notifications. The Alerts,

Warnings and Messages from authorized Government Agencies

will be available here.

Emergency warnings will be displayed with red colour as shown

in the picture

* All the Critical Warnings will be displayed in the mobile phones

even if the application is not opened, provided the Mobile is

connected to Internet.

Critical Warnings and NotificationsDASHBOARD

7

Second tab in the dashboard will provide the

previous travel details.

Ongoing Vessel information will be displayed on top with a blue colour .

Details displayed are• Vessel registration number

• Travel marked date and time

• Return marked date and time

• Passenger details etc. will be available in this screen

Previous Journey DetailsDASHBOARD

8

When you mark travel for the first time,

you may see a screen as shown in the

picture. This is used for mark your start

location using GPS coordinates. You may

select ‘ALLOW’ button to continue.

FOR DEMO

ONLY

New TravelDASHBOARD

9

Option to

FOR DEMO

ONLYYou have to select the vessel registration number

Select Direction

Add passengers

Mark attendance

Confirm the data

When you mark a TravelDASHBOARD

10

In order to add new passengers, the user has to select ‘New

Passenger’ button ( ) and provide the passengers

details in the Popup Window

• Identity document type

• Identity number as per document

• Name age

• State

• Place of living in the state etc.

If the user has opted the temporary only checkbox , then

that passenger will be considered only for the current

voyage. Otherwise he will be added to the default passenger

list.

FOR DEMO

ONLY

When you mark a TravelDASHBOARD

11

FOR DEMO

ONLY

You have to select the vessel registration number

Select Direction

Add passengers

Mark attendance

Confirm the data

When you mark a ReturnDASHBOARD

12

Using settings the User can,

• See the boat owners profile.

• Logout.

• Change the language.

FOR DEMO

ONLY

SettingsDASHBOARD

10

In order to add new passengers, the user has to select ‘New

Passenger’ button ( ) and provide the passengers

details in the Popup Window

• Identity document type

• Identity number as per document

• Name age

• State

• Place of living in the state etc.

If the user has opted the temporary only checkbox , then

that passenger will be considered only for the current

voyage. Otherwise he will be added to the default passenger

list.

FOR DEMO

ONLY

When you mark a TravelDASHBOARD

11

FOR DEMO

ONLY

You have to select the vessel registration number

Select Direction

Add passengers

Mark attendance

Confirm the data

When you mark a ReturnDASHBOARD

12

Using settings the User can,

• See the boat owners profile.

• Logout.

• Change the language.

FOR DEMO

ONLY

SettingsDASHBOARD

13

If boat owner is using this

application, user can see all

his vessels and their travel

status

FOR DEMO

ONLY

Vessel InformationDASHBOARD

14

When a new feature is added in Sagara, the

application will be published in google play store

as a new version. If you have not updated the

application from play store, then the App will

prompt you to update next time you use the App.

Please ensure you are installing the application from google play

store only

FOR DEMO

ONLY

Application

New Version Release

C. ROLE S & RESPONSIBILITIES OF STAKEHOLDERS

Responsibilities of NIC

1.1.1 Development of Application Software

SAGARA will be customized and replicated in all ReALCraft nodes

Integrate SAGARA with NAVIC and other applications of Govt approved agencies for

disseminating notice alert and information to the fishermen

1.1.2 Master trainer program Training Support to Officials at pilot place

NIC would organize one day Application oriented training program at pilot place for Department officers

and Boat Owners / Drivers.

1.2 RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATE FISHERIES DEPARTMENTS

1.2.1 Standardization of rules and regulations and implementation

DADF, GOI to notify and establish a premises that shall register voyage along with crew

members and directions and relevant information for each entry and exit being supervised by an

authorized person

Formal approval to be taken from the concerned authorities to share a copy of the details of all

the Fishing Vessels and Fishermen registered time to time in ReALCRAFT application

Provided necessary infrastructure , hardware and healthy connectivity

Instruction for doing entry and exit in SAGARA system

Formation of Project Monitoring Committees

For the smooth implementation, it is proposed to form PMC . The Committees will meet

regularly and take appropriate steps for the smooth implementation.

- Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) under the Chairmanship of Fisheries

Secretary, respective State Govt. to monitor the progress of the project and

give directions as required. The Committee will have at least one NIC officer as

its member. The problems faced by the Dept. during the implementation of this

project, should be addressed to NIC and Dept. Project Coordinators. PMC shall

meet at least once in two months. This committee will also recommend on the

issues related to Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and any other project

implementation issues.

State Fisheries Department will bear all the expenditure and provide necessary infrastructure

1.2.2 Training

State Fisheries Departments should identify a competent Officer to act as a Resource person as

well as trainer. This Officer should preferably have reasonable working knowledge in computer

& internet related activities.

This Officer is supposed to look after the day-to-day issues during implementation and act as a

link between the office and the NIC team, to sort out the issues. If this Officer is to be

transferred then suitable person should be identified and trained.

1.2.3 Sensitization Workshops

For collecting value added inputs which is a prerequisite for BPR (Business Process Re-

engineering), sensitization workshops are to be arranged. The first step towards this is to

provide general awareness about the application software and its deliverables.

1.2.4 Activate SMS Unicode gateways for sending notification /OTP . For this Dept may send

request to state IT dept for providing bulk SMS HTTP API and SMS sender ID (eg:

TNSAGARA) . After getting the sms gateway credentials and sender ID ,share those details

with NIC Kerala SAGARA team